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In this television appearance, Louis Prima, a former student at Warren Easton and Jesuit Highs, rips through a medley of four songs in just three-and-a-half minutes: "When You're Smiling," "C'è La Luna," "Zooma Zooma," and "Oh Marie Awesome." He's performing with Keely Smith, Sam Butera and the Witnesses.

One of the first big parades of the Carnival season, Krewe du Vieux, is taking a new route this year. KdV, active since 1987, will cross Canal and parade through the CBD after heading through their more familiar stomping grounds in the Marigny and French Quarter starting at 6:30pm on Saturday, January 31.

Do you work for a social service organization like a nonprofit, educational, religious, government, or community agency? Your group may be eligible for passes to the 2015 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival through their Community Outreach Tickets program! These free passes to Jazz Fest are for use by the people who are serviced by these types of organizations (i.e.

Some of my favoite Trombone Shorty shows happened along the river at French Quarter Fest. Here he is a few weeks before the April 2010 release of Backatown doing "On Your Way Down," a classic Allen Toussaint track from Life, Love, and Faith (1972).

In honor of WWOZ's string of live broadcasts and video streams from from Danilo Perez's Jazz Club at American Trade Hotel Panama, January 12-16 in conjunction with the 2015 Panama Jazz Festival, here's Panamanian Ruben Blades with "Dime," a cut that originally appeared on Siembra, released i